Blog - /blog/2012/06/11/you-ask-we-answer-debunking-federal-budget-myths/
June 11, 2012 - Bob from Vacaville, California, wrote in to ask us for some fact checking. He said he hears all the time that the size of the federal government has ballooned under President Obama, and wondered if th...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/06/06/how-to-close-the-budget-deficit-without-raising/
June 6, 2012 - ...deficits, though many people outside Washington may not have heard about this possible solution. While federal spending and budget deficits are widely covered in the news, it’s rarely mentioned...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/01/peoples-guide-to-the-debt-ceiling/
June 1, 2012 - Recently the notion of the "debt ceiling" has been appearing in the news. It's making a comeback after spending months in the spotlight last summer, when the federal government nearly shut down as fed...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/24/us-defense-cuts-hit-home-at-ohio-tank-plant/
May 24, 2012 - Jeff Bingman
Blog - /blog/2012/05/15/knowledge-power-and-you-dont-have-take-my-word-it/
May 15, 2012 - This week we announced the release of our new book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, and in yesterday’s blog post we admitted to being idealists: A book can change the world, we said...
Blog - /blog/2012/04/23/you-ask-we-answer-tax-subsidies-oil-companies/
April 23, 2012 - Betty from Hailey, Idaho, wrote to us about subsidies for oil companies. Thanks for writing, Betty – it's an interesting subject. Warning: We may have to get a bit wonky.
Blog - /blog/2012/04/19/gridlock-budget-process/
April 19, 2012 - President Obama released a budget in February, the House passed a very different budget in March, and the Senate has declined to do a budget. The seeds are planted for stalemate this election year. Wh...
Blog - /blog/2012/04/17/annual-budget-process-where-are-we-now/
April 18, 2012 - The House and Senate return this week from their spring recess with the seeds of a summer budget stalemate already planted.As required by law, in February President Obama released the Administration&r...
Video - /videos/2012/4/13/budget-brief-a-tale-of-two-budgets/
April 13, 2012 - ...deficit reduction in Rep. Paul Ryan's budget and the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget. Budget Process, Debt & Deficit, Taxes & Revenue, Transparency & Data
Blog - /blog/2012/04/03/pentagon-battles-healthcare-costs/
April 4, 2012 - As the Pentagon scrambles to find ways to save money, the Defense Department has included in its fiscal year 2013 budget request a political bombshell – increasing beneficiary contributions to i...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/education/
March 29, 2012 - ...deficit, a February 2011 poll found that 62 percent of Americans supported more funding for education in the federal budget—the strongest support for any type of spending. However, even with the...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/27/chairman-ryans-budget-more-less/
March 29, 2012 - ...deficit ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/competing-visions/
March 28, 2012 - This week the House of Representatives will consider two significantly different alternatives to the president’s fiscal 2013 budget request— the Republican draft budget resolution, introdu...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/15/priorities-yours-mine-and-the-presidents/
March 15, 2012 - I had an interesting discovery while combing through the numbers of the president's budget. I found that President Obama's spending priorities match pretty closely with the things Americans say they w...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/12/you-ask-we-answer-how-much-aid-do-we-give-to-foreign-countries/
March 12, 2012 - Kris from Concord, California, wrote in to ask how much aid the United States gives to foreign countries. Foreign aid and diplomacy together comprise around 1 percent of the federal budget, or $56 bil...
Video - /videos/2012/3/9/budget-brief-the-deficit/
March 9, 2012 - ...Deficit In a recent poll, Americans said their second priority for President Obama's new budget was to cut spending. Senior research analyst Chris Hellman gives some background on past deficits and pr...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/07/cut_spending/
March 8, 2012 - In a recent blog my colleague Mattea noted that a February poll by the Hill of likely voters found that the top priority for 45 percent of respondents was "job creation." In close second, with 40 perc...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/deficit/
Feb. 29, 2012 - Deficits mattea If the president is correct about projected spending and revenues in fiscal 2013, the U.S. Treasury will collect $2.9 trillion in taxes and the federal government will run a de...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/revenues/
Feb. 29, 2012 - ...deficits. The Economy Matters In order for the federal government to raise the projected $2.9 trillion in fiscal 2013, the president’s assumptions about the economy must prove to be mo...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/
Feb. 29, 2012 - On Feb. 13, the president released his budget proposal for FY 2013. National Priorities Project looks at the numbers, the history behind them, and why the president's budget matters.
